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In the case of apartheid South Africa, western countries (Israel included) looked at their nuclear weapons program with benevolent negligence when they did not provide covert assistance.

I had a closer look at the 3619 train timings, it is clocked at 1hr02 for Paris-Les Aubrais and 38 minutes for Les Aubrais-Vierzon, which is very hard if not impossible if it's not a V200 indeed. (I'm sure you know that, but maybe not all forum members do: V200 is a train category in France, not...

Oh yes, for the Toulouse itinerary, the rolling stock is comfortable and the timings are sensible, that's why I suggested it in the first place. But the pleasantness of a trip depends on a variety of personal parameters and preferences and I can't judge what Marc's are. For example, I don't...

I concur with NCT. You should treat France as the high-speed-railover (*) part of your journey. The most reasonable choice in my opinion is Brussels-Paris-Bordeaux on Thalys (**) and TGV, enjoy Bordeaux, it's a nice enough city, spend a nice evening there, and start your classic train journey at...

You can do Paris-Hendaye in a day without using high speed trains and with only one change, but it's going to be a looong day. Paris-Austerlitz 08:28 Toulouse-Matabiau 15:32, train 3619. It stops at every pissotière along the way, that's why it takes more than 7 hours. Toulouse-Matabiau 16:31...

A good new e-bike can be bought for £2,000. You won't get much of a new motorbike for two grand. And even if you did, the use costs are in another league for the motorbike. Case in point: https://www.fullycharged.com/moustache-samedi-28-1-open/ For a higher-spec bike with an in-frame battery...

Unfortunately I wouldn’t be so sure that the bet is unwise. Prolonging the Kent State analogy, while the murders (*) had a strong impact on the youth and the left at large, and on intellectual and cultural circles, they did not hamper Nixon politically. After all he was very comfortably...

Trump/Miller want their own Kent State massacre, and they are betting on the fact that public opinion will be on the side that holds guns rather than on the side that receives bullets.

Accessing Fives from the LGV is not trivial. No junction on a reasonable Switzerland - Lille route via LGV offers suitable facilities, or even the technical possibility for a driver change. Realistically, a Switzerland - UK service - even from Basel - will require a driver change and this...

I have been a daily rider of an electrically assisted bike in Paris for the best part of two years. Total distance traveled ~20 km/day, plus some leisure trips at weekends. I live in the highest part of the metropolis, the plateau northeast of Paris, and my bike is a mid-drive, motor-in-crank...

Oh come on, you cannot be suggesting a LGV lineside driver change in the middle of nowhere ;) or at one of the emergency platforms of the LGV, which are in the deepest middles of nowhere you can imagine.

Bizarre because like you I can’t see a market for a CH-UK direct train without intermediate commercial stops. Plus, the Home office would probably require that the platforms of the technical stop station are cordoned off anyway.

Yes, "non-stop" could indeed mean "no commercial stop, only technical" but that would really be a bizarre operation.

Absolutely, but the fact that Jon Worth reports that the option of a nonstop run through France is considered makes me think he may not be as well informed as some think on the operations of long-distance high-speed rail. 1747044641 I think we've already had that discussion and I remember...

Good luck to the bladder of the driver doing a nonstop [London] - Channel Tunnel - Switzerland run.

I believe Indian Railways still manufacture the vast majority of their rolling stock in-house.

Ah, my bad, I always thought it was.

Amiens used to be a technical stop on the Golden arrow - in the last years of the service, this is where a traction changeover from electric to steam and v.v. would occur - but I'm not sure that it was a commercial stop.

A poster wrote that SNCF should introduce a revenue analysis and sharing system for commercial decisions and subsidy calculations, and I provided the information that a system to that effect exists (and has existed for quite some time). Shared ticketing between TGV/Intercités and TER used to be...

The system you’re looking for used to be FC12K and was replaced by Thémis in 2021.